The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: In Fourteen Volumes: with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes, Volume 1J. Ballantyne, 1812 - 14 pages |
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Page xci
... leave her to that solitariness . " Another peculiarity of Fletcher's metre , which also prevails more or less in all the dramatic verse of the time , and which must of course be attended to by the reader , is the introduc- tion of ...
... leave her to that solitariness . " Another peculiarity of Fletcher's metre , which also prevails more or less in all the dramatic verse of the time , and which must of course be attended to by the reader , is the introduc- tion of ...
Page cviii
... They paid little attention to that very necessary duty of an editor , punctuation , leaving it in general in the same state as in the worthless edition of 1711 , from which they printed . But , to use the cviii INTRODUCTION .
... They paid little attention to that very necessary duty of an editor , punctuation , leaving it in general in the same state as in the worthless edition of 1711 , from which they printed . But , to use the cviii INTRODUCTION .
Page cxliv
... the whole fame , * Some of Seward's notes , containing proposals for amending passages in Shakspeare and our authors , have been omitted in the present edition . leaving to the former nothing but the mere pruning of MR SEWARD'S PREFACE. ...
... the whole fame , * Some of Seward's notes , containing proposals for amending passages in Shakspeare and our authors , have been omitted in the present edition . leaving to the former nothing but the mere pruning of MR SEWARD'S PREFACE. ...
Page cxlv
... leaving to the former nothing but the mere pruning of Fletcher's luxuriant wit , the lima labor , the plummet , and the rule , but neither the plan , ma- terials , composition , or ornaments . This is di- rectly asserted in Mr ...
... leaving to the former nothing but the mere pruning of Fletcher's luxuriant wit , the lima labor , the plummet , and the rule , but neither the plan , ma- terials , composition , or ornaments . This is di- rectly asserted in Mr ...
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... leave all other charac- ters of the same species , even Shakspeare's own Parolles , far behind them . Our excellent Congreve has consolidated the two Swordsmen to form his Captain Bluff . And be it his honour to have imitated so well ...
... leave all other charac- ters of the same species , even Shakspeare's own Parolles , far behind them . Our excellent Congreve has consolidated the two Swordsmen to form his Captain Bluff . And be it his honour to have imitated so well ...
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Page clxv - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Page cxcvi - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page clix - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page xxxv - What things have we seen Done at the ' Mermaid ? ' Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page lxx - Beaumont and Fletcher, of whom I am next to speak, had, with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts improved by study; Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge of plays that Ben Jonson, while he lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and, 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving all his plots.
Page cl - Every Man out of his Humour," usurped that dictatorship, in the Literary Republic, which he so sturdily and invariably maintained, though long and hardily disputed.
Page 190 - Troul the black bowl to me ;" and a woman that will sing a catch in her travail. I have seen a man come by my door with a serious face, in a black cloak, without a hatband, carrying his head as if he look'd for pins in the street.
Page cxxxix - ... off, before he committed one word to writing, and never touched pen till all was to stand as firm and immutable as if engraven in brass or marble.
Page clix - em. he would weep, As if he meant to make 'em grow again. Seeing such pretty helpless innocence Dwell in his face, I ask'd him all his story. He told me, that his parents gentle died, Leaving him to the mercy of the fields, Which gave him roots ; and of the crystal springs, Which did not stop their courses ; and the sun, Which still, he thank'd him, yielded him his light.
Page 143 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright Honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned Honour by the locks; So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities.